wwcitizen | Apr. 8th, 2012

We've been having a wonderful weekend!! The weekend started out on Friday with us getting our hair cuts. We were about 2 weeks overdue for those. Friday night, we visited our friends Tommy & Brian for Easter Egg coloring. It was so much fun, and best to do with friends.

This is Brian with his most fabulous egg ever! It's fun how some dying elements just happen and then if you take advantage of them - juuuuust right - you can make something amazing out of it! Brian cooks a mean Cornish hen and Tommy makes delicious guacamole! YUMMY!

That was the culmination! Beautiful eggs, tons of colors, lots of creativity, and fun with friends. (Plus, I love Matt's face here: "That's enough pictures, Stephen!")

Yesterday, Matthew and I slept a long, long time. We didn't eat ANYTHING all day till dinner at Tony's di Napoli. There we met up with

squirreltot*,

texwriterbear,

super_sean for the first time ever along with another Texan friend, Shane. Unfortunately,

allsmilesbear didn't make it out, but

mat_t did!

jimwnyc and

tinman11201* came out, too, and we met THEM for the first time in person, too! It was a lot of fun, great food, and great company.

Dinner was arugula/pear salad, grilled shrimp, (libations - goes without saying), broccoli rabe, escarole and beans, veal salimbucca (thinly pounded veal cutlet with provolone and prosciutto) over spinach, chicken scarpiello with potatoes, peppers, and Italian sausage, and lobster raviolis with vodka penne. Don't forget the amazing Italian bread, and dessert: NY cheesecake, tiramisu, an ice cream cake (on the house), and cannolis. Oh, and libations. Most everyone got appletinis.

Here are a few pictures from the evening (including some of the damage). More pictures from the dinner, you can find here.

Afterwards, as everyone else retired for the evening, Matthew and I dashed off to Ty's for a nightcap. We hadn't been out in the city since about February, so were pretty overdue. There we were glad to run into our buddy, Chris. Such a sweetheart.

Today, we're heading up to the Ramsay, NJ, for Easter Dinner at about 3:00 with Matt's family; we're not hosting this year (don't get me started!). I'm kind sleepy from all this weekend activity so far; might have to go take a nap before breakfast and lunch!